| 1976-12-03
An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley. He is shot twice, but plays a concert two days later.
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| 1976-07-20
Hank Aaron hits his 755th home run, the final home run of his career.
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| 1976-07-17
The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team.
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| 1976-07-20
Vietnam War: The U.S. military completes its troop withdrawal from Thailand.
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| 1976-04-11
The Apple I is created.
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| 1976-02-05
The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.
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| 1976-12-05
The United Nations General Assembly adopts Pakistan's resolution on security of non-Nuclear States.
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| 1976-10-04
Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST).
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| 1976-02-04
In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
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| 1976-03-04
The first Cray-1 supercomputer is shipped to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico.
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| 1976-09-21
Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Chilean socialist government of Salvador Allende, overthrown in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet.
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| 1976-09-10
A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
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| 1976-05-08
The rollercoaster Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
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| 1976-07-17
History of East Timor: East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.
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| 1976-10-12
The People's Republic of China announces that Hua Guofeng is the successor to the late Mao Zedong as chairman of Communist Party of China.
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| 1976-07-01
Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
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| 1976-04-01
The Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect hoax is first reported by British astronomer Patrick Moore.
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| 1976-10-20
The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River between Destrehan and Luling, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive.
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| 1976-09-06
Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States.
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| 1976-04-04
Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
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| 1976-03-24
A general strike takes place in the People's Republic of Congo.
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| 1976-07-02
Fall of the Republic of Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam declares their union to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
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| 1976-10-13
The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle was obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C.
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| 1976-05-06
An earthquake strikes Friuli, causing 989 deaths and the destruction of entire villages.
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| 1976-12-26
The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) is founded.
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| 1976-11-08
A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.
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| 1976-09-18
Mao Zedong's funeral takes place in Beijing.
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| 1976-11-23
Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.
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| 1976-02-20
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
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| 1976-03-26
Queen Elizabeth II sends the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.
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| 1976-04-07
Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.
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| 1976-06-27
Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
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| 1976-06-05
Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, United States.
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| 1976-02-02
The Groundhog Day gale hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada.
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| 1976-10-19
Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon.
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| 1976-04-05
In the People's Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen incident.
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| 1976-02-12
Actor Sal Mineo is stabbed to death in West Hollywood.
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| 1976-07-29
In New York City, the "Son of Sam" kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
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| 1976-05-24
The London to Washington, D.C. Concorde service begins.
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| 1976-10-06
Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados after two bombs, placed on board by terrorists with connections to the CIA, exploded. All 73 people on-board are killed.
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| 1976-08-07
Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
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| 1976-07-19
Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
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| 1976-07-10
The Seveso disaster occurs in Italy.
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| 1976-04-01
Conrail takes over operations from six bankrupt railroads in the Northeastern U.S..
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| 1976-02-24
Cuba: national Constitution is proclaimed.
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| 1976-08-06
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
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| 1976-02-19
Executive Order 9066 is rescinded by President Gerald R. Ford's Proclamation 4417
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| 1976-02-27
The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
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| 1976-08-12
Between 1,000-3,500 Palestinians killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War
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| 1976-03-04
The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London via the British parliament.
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| 1976-07-27
Former Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka is arrested on suspicion of violating foreign exchange and foreign trade laws in connection with the Lockheed bribery scandals.
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| 1976-01-21
Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
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| 1976-03-24
In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process. Since 2006, a public holiday known as Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice is held on this day.
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| 1976-06-25
Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
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| 1976-09-19
Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 155 passengers and crew.
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| 1976-10-11
George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford.
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| 1976-06-29
The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
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| 1976-07-31
Viking program: Viking 1 – NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo.
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| 1976-08-21
Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjeom, Korea.
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| 1976-12-01
Angola joins the United Nations.
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| 1976-07-22
Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during the imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War
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| 1976-01-15
Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
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| 1976-07-18
Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
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| 1976-08-14
The Senegalese political party PAI-Rénovation is legally recognized. PAI-Rénovation thus becomes the third legal party in the country.
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| 1976-10-22
Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.
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| 1976-09-03
Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
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| 1976-02-15
The 1976 Constitution of Cuba is adopted by the national referendum.
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| 1976-07-20
The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
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| 1976-11-19
Jaime Ornelas Camacho takes office as the first President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Portugal.
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| 1976-01-05
Cambodia is renamed the Democratic Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge.
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| 1976-04-01
Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
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| 1976-08-08
As part of the ABA-NBA merger agreement, a dispersal draft was conducted to assign teams for the players on the two ABA franchises which had folded.
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| 1976-09-21
Seychelles joins the United Nations.
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| 1976-07-28
The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan, the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
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| 1976-11-15
René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favour of independence.
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| 1976-12-02
Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
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| 1976-10-06
New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and associates and ends the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China.
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| 1976-09-16
Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan reservoir.
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| 1976-04-13
The United States Treasury Department reintroduced the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
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| 1976-03-03
5 workers are killed by the police in a demonstration in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
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| 1976-06-22
The Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
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| 1976-07-10
One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
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| 1976-10-06
Massacre of students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand to protest the return of ex-dictator Thanom, by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
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| 1976-06-28
The Angolan court sentenced US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
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| 1976-03-16
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns, citing personal reasons.
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| 1976-10-13
A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground).
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| 1976-07-21
Christopher Ewart-Biggs British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
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| 1976-03-09
Forty-two people die in the 1976 Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
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| 1976-08-18
In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjeom, the Axe Murder Incident results in the death of two US soldiers.
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| 1976-06-16
Soweto uprising: a non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.
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| 1976-12-15
Samoa becomes a member of the United Nations.
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| 1976-03-27
The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
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| 1976-01-12
The UN Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
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| 1976-06-14
The trial of Donald Neilson, the killer known as the Black Panther, begins at Oxford Crown Court .
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| 1976-07-04
Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
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| 1976-09-17
The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.
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